Cross-reference catalogue index



H. PAULSON. CROSS REFERENCE CATALOGUE INDEX. APPLICATION FILED n:c.2I..I92o.

Patented Jan. 17,1922., l

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THENZRY` PAULSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CROSS-REFERENCE CATALOGUE INDEX.

Application led December 27, 1920. Serial No. 433,330.

To all -irzomt may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY PAULsoN, a citizen ot the United States, residing at the city of Chicago, county of Cook, State ot Illinois, have invented a new and useful Crossliet'erence Catalogue Index, ot which the following is a specification.

Ely invention relates to improvements in a catalogue index to accomplish which, I, in addition to the usual index which either precedes or follows the contents ot such a workA- place in a prominent position on each and every page ot my catalogue, on which illustrations and prices of merchandise are printed, a section ot index, containing crossreterences, particularly appropriate to the page in question. Y

The drawing attached to this specification illustrates catalogue page illustrating and quoting the prices on pliers, pliers being- In the upper lett-hand corner (the upper right-hand corner may be used equally well) of the page appears a piecev ot cross-reference index, containing items which might be popularly supposed to list under the letter P, but'which are correctly listed under other classifications and consequently on other pages. The sample index, illustrated in the drawing, lists just such items and offers the page number on which these items are advertised. For examples:

Punches, Carat Page 245 D The advantage of this improved system ot indexing lies in the `fact that easy access may be had to catalogue illustrations and price quotations on items which are popularly known under several different names. For example, pendant set keys. This might be classiiied under P (pendant tools) or under K-(keys) but is correctly classified under S-being a forni of screwdriver. By means of my system ot' indexing, one who examines a catalogue in an endeavor to locate a parvticular item of interest to him, turns to the classification under which he believes that the item he is seeking, is listed. On failing to find the item listed therein, he consults the cross-reference index and learns the page number on which the item he seeks, is listed.

I claim:

An advertising merchandise catalogue, consisting of illustrating prints and price quotations, having on one or more of its pages a marginal index, in which there are listed descriptive names of items which might in true alphabetical sequence be correctly illustrated and priced ,on that selected page, but whichare actually illustrated and priced elsewhere under a different descriptive name, to which latter page reference is made on the marginal index ot' the page in question.

HENRY PAULSON. 

